Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Beats ElevenLabs in Quality Benchmarks
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS on April 15, 2026, a text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs v3 in quality benchmarks while offering a generous free tier.
Darwin-TTS Adds Emotion to AI Voice With No Training Required
Researchers published Darwin-TTS on April 15, 2026, a text-to-speech model that adds emotional expression to AI voice without any training, fine-tuning, or new data.
Fish Audio S2: Open-Source TTS Beats GPT-4o
Fish Audio released S2, an open-source text-to-speech model trained on over 10 million hours of audio data spanning 50 languages. The model beats GPT-4o-mini-tts on the EmergentTTS-Eval benchmark with an 81.88% win rate, and ships with full weights, fine-tuning code, and a streaming inference engine